THE FAMILY MAN
Robert Kennedy was the father of eleven children. What often makes the anguish of the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy more tragic and elevates their mythologies is that they were both fathers. The family portraits can not be underestimated in their influence on the Kennedy legacy. They intensify the relationship the ordinary American sees himself / herself as having with the Kennedy family. Images accentuate that behind the celebrity and behind the politician there is and always was a family man. The pictures of Robert Kennedy and his family freeze the commonality of humanity. He was after all, just a man.